Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 6908P

Rathbone Brothers PLC

06 October 2011

Rathbone Brothers Plc (the 'Company')

Directors' shareholdings

In accordance with the rules of the Company's executive director profit share plan (the 'Plan'), following the payment of the interim Rathbone Brothers Plc dividend for 2011 of 17p per share on 5 October 2011, the following directors were awarded notional deferred 'dividend share' awards of Rathbone Brothers Plc ordinary shares. The number of shares was calculated at £10.10 being the closing mid-market share price on 5 October 2011 in accordance with the Plan rules.

Ordinarily, deferred dividend share awards will vest when the underlying deferred share awards vest on the third anniversary of the end of the relevant financial year. Vesting is not subject to the satisfaction of performance conditions but all or part of an award may lapse in certain circumstances, for example in the event of the director being considered a 'bad leaver'.

Director	Deferred 'dividend share' award	Total holding	Total holding as % of issued share capital (excluding treasury shares)
I M Buckley	175	49,438	0.114%
P D G Chavasse	201	70,018	0.161%
R P Lanyon	389	226,828	0.522%
A T Morris	163	66,613	0.153%
A D Pomfret	355	126,188	0.290%
R I Smeeton	386	134,438	0.309%
R P Stockton	194	18,278	0.042%